scared - Story 123226 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d found them in the garage, tucked away behind the old lawnmower. The boxes were plain cardboard, but the contents were anything but. Every art project, every book report, every test, meticulously filed and preserved.

He felt a tightness in his chest, a sensation akin to being held underwater. He backed away from the boxes, almost bumping into the car. His hands felt cold, his fingers stiff. He couldn't quite meet the gaze of the boxes, filled with echoes of a past he couldn't process.

He wanted to close the garage door and pretend he hadn't seen them. His heart thumped an erratic rhythm against his ribs.

Emotion: scared

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.86 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.84

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion scared. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 scared stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the scared emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the scared vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😣`	0.350
`😰`	0.337
`😖`	0.317
`마다`	0.317
`恐惧`	0.311

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.637
`de`	-0.605
`a`	-0.402
`"`	-0.351
`happy`	-0.314